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v To all whom it may concern:

/ of the town of Hornellsville, in the county of 7 new and usefulcompound for an inextinguishreference being bad to the severalingredients practical experiment) that the above simple manner and pr Toenable others skilled in the art to make ground or pulverizedseparately. I then take two (2) parts; salt, one (1) part. Mix andimanner as with gunpowder; or it may be rammed down to various degreesof solidity,

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- quill, from five to ten inches in lepgth, the tube being ignited atthe end with perfect safety drop and sink, and will give sufficient timefor STATES Parana QFFICE.

THOMAS K. ANDERSON, OF HORNELLSVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED COMPQSlTiOii FUSE 0R Si h MATCH FOR lGNlTlNG POWDER UNDERWATER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 341%33, dated January28, 1862.

Be it knowu that I, THOMAS K. ANDERSON,

Steuben, State of New York, have invented a able fuse or slow-match forigniting powder under water, and for various other purposes; and I dohereby declare that the following is a clear, full; and exactdescription of the same,

and prepared mixture herein described, and making a part of thisspecification.

The materials I use are niter, (pul'verized,) charcoal, (pulverized,)sulphur, (pulvcrized,) and muriate of soda, (pulverizeth) My inventionconsists in the discovery (by ingredients, pre ared and compounded inthe tigortions specified, produce the following practical results.

and use my inextinguishable fuse, I will proceed to describe the mode ofpreparing and its operation and elfects.

Theseveral ingredients should all be finely of the powders in bulk, asfollows: niter, eight (8) parts; charcoal, ten (10) parts; sulphur,

grind them together. The preparation is then ready to charge a quill ora tube in the same and thereby the length of time it will continue toburn in a given. length of" fuse before exploding the charge may bedetermined on with A canister containing any quahtity ofpgw; der' maywith. certainty be ignited at "the depth of many hundred feet byconnecting therewith a tubeof the size of a common goosewhile thecanister is held, and then allowed to a boat to move oil to a suitabledistance for safety before the explosion takes places-:

This compound will not cxplod'einstantaneously if ignited in a mass inthe atmosphere,

so that it is perfectly safe to manufacture in large quantities, but itburns slowly like. wet

or soaked gunpowder; butwhen it is confined 'ignitedinto them. Ineffect, the burning of this simple and cheap compound under water hasbeen found to be of the most extraordinary nature, and to produce themost practical.

and beneficial results.

A small tube containing at the end an ordinary charge of gunpowder andfilled up with this compound dropped into and ex-' ploded in a well orcistern will bring to the surface of the water all obnoxious substances,remove worms and animalculse, and destroy all the noxious vapors. A f

A smallcharge of gunpowder ignited by this fuse at thebottom of a pondor stream where a person has been drowned will immediately raise thebody to the surface; and for the purpose of blasting rocks, or breakingup the hulls of sunken ships, or removing any heavy body in or underwater by the use of powder, it is sure fire.

It is believed to be a superior fuse for shell and shrapnell to anybefore discovered or now in use, as none of them would be extinguishedby falling into the water, or by any other means, when once ignited, andthe explosion in every instance would be certain.

Having thus fully described my discovery and improved compound forinextinguishable fuse, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-- A compound consisting of the four namedingredients, in or about the same proportions specified, prepared andused in the manner as and for the purposes herein set forth.

THOMAS K. ANDERSON.

Witnesses Emir. F. BROWN, J. B; WOODRUFF.

